reproducing the hoxton contemporary bed by natural bed company
i am reproducing the hoxton contemporary bed by the natural bed company of sheffield england; i am having difficulty landing on a method to reproduce the walnut chevron head board and would really like some help! the bed can be seen on there website- naturalbedcompany.com THANKS
Tom Walden
Asheville ; NC
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Seems like veneering a piece of plywood is the most practical and likely the way the manufacturer makes theirs.
Their other bed headboards are veneered MDF. I suspect they are all. But if you wanted real solid wood and not a veneer etc. then you can arrive at the chevron design by laying out the ready to glue boards in a chevron pattern just like you would a wood floor. Glue it up then trim it down to size and sand then finish it. By the time you are done it will likely cost you as much if not more then the MDF one they are selling. If you do not have the tools and are relying on someone else to cut up the raw wood and produce finished boards, it will cost you much more then the veneer one will. If you have plenty of time, the wood laying around and the right tools you could reproduce it fairly well. You may want to consider just using unfinished hardwood flooring to construct the headboard and arrange it in a chevron pattern. If you are doing it for economic reasons you likely can not make it at a price that makes sense economically once labor and or wood cost are counted in.
It definitely has the look of solid wood, the ash version shows even better . You could laminate as mentioned previously but I see the chalenge in jointing the two sides in the center . I would suspect they have a sliding table saw to cut perfect edges and use a deep spline to hold it together.
The Hoxton wedsite claims "...hand made solid wood bed ...." Personally I would find it easy to make that headboard out of solid wood - a lot easier than veneering a great lump of MDF.
But the requirement might be a sliding carriage table saw to do the angled cross-cutting. Those great mdf jigs on those queer wee Unisaws would be a PITA, no doubt. :-)
You seem to have only large and expensive sliding carriage TS in the USA. In Europe there are many more at all price points. Here's a Blighty website that has a few, including those of the Scheppach ilk that I use myself and have done for 20 years without issue. Accurate to 0.1mm in both ripping and cross-cutting. Coo! (The prices have a 20% sales tax included, btw)
https://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php/section//sn/SCHTS82#.XrETBJ5Kj18
And mine
https://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php/section/9899/sn/SCHPRECISA4DEAL2#.XrEUIJ5Kj18
It would do that Hoxton bed head in no time. :-)
Lataxe
Lots of good suggestions here. A couple of thoughts.. If it is made of solid wood, I'd be concerned with the strength of that centre chevron. I'd also be concerned with seasonal wood movement. That centre chevon has to be robust and rigid for strength yet be capable of moving with the seasons. However, seasonal movement would risk it "opening up" like the mitred corners of door casing.
If you do decide to veneer and vacuum bag it, may I suggest that you don't use MDF. Please use no less than HDF and preferably plywood (veneered both sides).
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